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https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/irelands-oldest-mcdonalds-is-given-a-revamp-as-the-digital-trend-continues-37898624.html (https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/irelands-oldest-mcdonalds-is-given-a-revamp-as-the-digital-trend-continues-37898624.html)
Ireland's oldest McDonald's is given a revamp as the digital trend continues
Gavin McLouglin
March 11 2019 2:30 AM
Ireland's oldest McDonald's has just got a very modern revamp.
Owner Amir Afsar has had 16 digital ordering screens installed on the restaurant floor in Grafton Street, Dublin, where customers can punch in their order and have it delivered to their table.
You can still order your food the traditional way if you want, but the space available to do so is reduced.
The idea that automation might be coming for our jobs is well ventilated at this stage, but Mr Afsar says the screens have actually resulted in staff levels going up across his network.
One of 22 McDonald's franchisees in Ireland, he owns 11 restaurants spanning Dublin city centre, south Dublin, and Arklow in Co Wicklow, and has already introduced the screens (or kiosks as McDonald's calls them) elsewhere.
"With the introduction of kiosks my average restaurant's staff numbers have gone up by 20pc... I may need less people serving the customers, but now I have table service so I may need more people delivering food to our customers."
More people may also be needed in the kitchens, as the new format allows more people to place orders at the one time.
Home delivery has started as well - in partnership with the Uber Eats food delivery service.
That's been exceptionally successful at attracting people who aren't coming to restaurants - 'incrementality' to use the business speak.
"Our incrementality is exceptionally high. A lot of the customers we're getting for delivery are not customers that were visiting ... as we expand the number of restaurants doing it that incrementality will drop but it's exceptionally high," Mr Afsar said.
The 55-year-old is something of a McDonald's lifer. At university in the UK, a friend who was working part-time in McDonald's encouraged Mr Afsar to do likewise.
"I wasn't the most outspoken person in the world but I think one of the things McDonald's does is it forces you to come out of your shell. Because you're suddenly forced to go on the till, and talk to customers you have never met ... it really helps boost your self-confidence."
He wanted to be a doctor but couldn't afford the fees, and so he decided to start working full-time at McDonald's because he was enjoying what he was doing so much.
After moving quickly through the ranks, taking on various managerial roles, he came to Ireland 22 years ago on a secondment.
His job was field services manager for the island - essentially helping franchisees open new restaurants here.
Taking on a franchise for himself was a natural progression, and he started out with the restaurant at the Nutgrove Shopping Centre in Rathfarnham, south Dublin, the first restaurant in Europe to have a drive-thru. More than 1,000 people are employed across his restaurants, an indication of the scale McDonald's franchises can achieve. Though recruiting labour is challenging with the economy close to full employment, Mr Afsar has been helped by a societal attitude change towards working at McDonald's.
"The misconception that people have about McDonald's - we don't have that any more. A lot of our employees introduce their friends.
"It can turn into a career with us which has its own rewards. But there's a lot of transferable skills that you kind of learn in McDonald's... initiative, team building, decision making, these are the things to be honest that a lot of employees are learning, without even realising that they're being taught those things.
"I have a lot of managers who are 18 or 19 years old, who have responsibility sometimes on a shift for 30 or 40 people... and everybody goes through that development."
Any staff member who wants to emulate Mr Afsar and own their own franchise will face a challenging task, however. McDonald's, he says, is "very selective" in whom it awards franchises too.
Prospective franchisees have to apply and make it past an interview process.
Then they have to spend 12 days working in a restaurant for a preliminary evaluation.
If they make it past that phase, they have to do a further nine months of unpaid restaurant work, taking on a wide variety of roles. It is only on passing this stage that someone gets the chance to own their own restaurant.
Taking on that challenge looks more difficult now with Brexit looming.
Mr Afsar's business sources much of its inputs here - beef, cheese, milk - but the all-important fries come from McCain in the UK.
That means Brexit could potentially disrupt their supply.
Mr Afsar says, however, that contingency plans are being put in place. The plans are being worked on by McDonald's itself, which won't reveal the details, saying these are commercially sensitive.
McDonald's UK and Ireland told the Irish Independent it has "developed a robust contingency plan, taking into account all scenarios to look to ensure that there is minimal disruption to our supply chain following Brexit".
"We continue to work closely with our supply chain partners to prepare accordingly," the company said. Mr Afsar said he is "100pc confident" that fries will stay on the menu.
It's probably critical to his business they do so.
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I was worried any word on burgerking .
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Vegetarians running the show.............just shows you............hindus know best.
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I don't like Burger King fries so I don't care.
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Passenger from the Institute of Engineers said .If Brexit happens that there are huge implications for Engineering and the likes of the hospital build .A lot of british engineered products will not conform to existing european safety standards that includes nuts and bolts anything manufactured in GB will need to be recertified as it no longer qualifies under European standards as Britain are no longer members .
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It mightn't be as bad as you think.
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
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They don't do rolls either!
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DM , Ger's Deli in Ballyer is very good value if your in that part of the world again
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
Bohs drew though against Derry.....about 3 quid for the same in the North.
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Soup and a sandwich..thats two different meals Daly.
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Thought I read that fecal material was discovered on most digital ordering screens when swabbed?
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You did... and so did I. I made a rare visit to my local McDonalds since as it goes... I explained to a staff member that their screens carry more germs than human shit and devised a workaround... I got him to press all the "buttons".
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
Most places charge €4.50 for soup so €7.25 for your sandwich isn’t bad. That’s about average for fancy sandwich shops
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
Most places charge €4.50 for soup so €7.25 for your sandwich isn’t bad. That’s about average for fancy sandwich shops
Dunnes in Georges Street , excellent value and they do soup
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
Most places charge €4.50 for soup so €7.25 for your sandwich isn’t bad. That’s about average for fancy sandwich shops
Dunnes in Georges Street , excellent value and they do soup
But how much is the soup
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Talking about food. I will NEVER go to O Briens sandwich bar again.out in liffey valley just now,I went in for soup,and a sandwich. I couldnt believe what the robbing bastards charged me 11=75 euro and 75-cents fukking outragious
Most places charge €4.50 for soup so €7.25 for your sandwich isn’t bad. That’s about average for fancy sandwich shops
Dunnes in Georges Street , excellent value and they do soup
But how much is the soup
Dont know never had it
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Wait till tomorrow when the Brits say what tarriffs they will impose if they crash out .
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Brexit will not happen . and was never going to happen .
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Brexit will not happen . and was never going to happen .
I hope so ...................................BUT Brits dont do backing down .
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Wait till tomorrow when the Brits say what tarriffs they will impose if they crash out .
If they have any sense - and they have, not the politicians, the civil servants who have already increased their power and budgets to unprecedented levels - they will outline an open border with ROI, at least between ROI and NI along the lines of what Mr. Rees-Mogg suggested some time ago but maybe tweaked as a blind eye system as suggested by Bertie Ahern from an Irish perspective.
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Wait till tomorrow when the Brits say what tarriffs they will impose if they crash out .
If they have any sense - and they have, not the politicians, the civil servants who have already increased their power and budgets to unprecedented levels - they will outline an open border with ROI, at least between ROI and NI along the lines of what Mr. Rees-Mogg suggested some time ago but maybe tweaked as a blind eye system as suggested by Bertie Ahern from an Irish perspective.
Or they will remind the Gay Foreigner that a lot of our gas and electricity is imported through the interconnector via the North and will now incur import taxes .Sir Humphrey dosent like uppety Irish Faggots fucking with his Brexit .Real pity we didnt have a proper politician in Kildare Street and not a Gay tailors dummy who might of said sure it will all be grand carry on and we will see how it works out .
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Too aggressive. Saying they won't impose (or won't enforce) tariffs as far as ROI is concerned is by far the more diplomatic option.
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You did... and so did I. I made a rare visit to my local McDonalds since as it goes... I explained to a staff member that their screens carry more germs than human shit and devised a workaround... I got him to press all the "buttons".
bet they didnt fumigate their hands afterwards and contaminated the whole kip lol lol
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Too aggressive. Saying they won't impose (or won't enforce) tariffs as far as ROI is concerned is by far the more diplomatic option.
You called it Rodent They just announced no checks on goods coming from the ROI into THE NORTH .Now what will the EU instruct the Republic to do .They cannot have an open border inti the EU between the UK and Ireland .
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You got to admire the Brits when it comes to doing Politics .Irish farmers can feed the north with no duty but that ends if they send stuff through the north into the rest of the UK .Brits have done exactly what they said no border between Norn Eireann and the Republic. Brilliant move by them ,now what will the EU do if they reciprocate then there is no need for a backstop or do they protect the EU borders and tell Leo to close the border .
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Brexit will not happen . and was never going to happen .
Looks that way. Be a good man or woman who calls it correctly though. Border checks exemption if No Deal? Farmers, and the big TD farmers especially, will hit the roof if this goes tits up.....and it will........kicked into oblivion.......huge coup by the Brits and the payoff will have to be to join the common currency if the game continues where May is leading it.
https://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-checks-northern-ireland-border-4538597-Mar2019/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-checks-northern-ireland-border-4538597-Mar2019/)
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Lip Brits just played their Joker .NO TARRIFFS BETWEEN NORTH AND REPUBLIC that satisfies free movement between us and them and upholds the Good Friday .If paddy puts a pig in a lorry and drives from Monaghan to Larne thats duty free but as soon as he gets on the ferry to Scotland then he needs to pay pig tax .Now what will the EU do about the free movement of goods between Norn Eireannand the Republic but remember there are no tarriffs between mainland UK anf British Northren Eireann .Will the EU break the Belfast Agreement and impose a border on the island of Ireland .Ill call it Britain Leave with no deal .May might call a shock general election to disimpower the Loyalist Scum that hold her to ransom .
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Correct, John, but am I right in thinking Big Tom, the pig farmer from Carrickmacross, might have to pay a huge tariff if he goes through Dublin port to export his goods? Surely, this'll mean we will be wiped out here as an option, seeing as how the floating lodge(Larne) will be tariff free? The North will have to join the common currency as a possible independent state under the Commonwealth like so many of the Brit islands.
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When it comes to doing politics or treaties nobody does it better than the Brits .Why would the EU 27 offer them an extention .99.999999999999% of opinion says Brits back down .History says they will not never have never will .If they revoke 50 there will be civil war ,if they dont end free movement and paying the EU civil war breaks out .Britain is a broken society the EU is being blamed but Churchills invitation post war caused their problems .When I say Civil war I mean White anglo Brits ethnic cleansing in no paticular order ,Pakastanis,Africans,Indians Irish .Dont forget the British Government have history of sending british troops on to the streets of Britain to shoot dead british citizens last time it was ethnic Catholics next time it could be ethnic Muslims or Jews .For peace and harmony Britian must bow to the will of the people and leave anything else and Britain collapses into Civil unreast .Tessy May knows this Corbin knows .Dangerous times Lip and our esteemed leader who is on Holiday has put himself front and center as the person leading the charge against Brexit and as a result the Irish in the UK will pay a price .The Irish in the North will pay most .
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Lip have you worked it out yet .Free movement of goods into the North will wipe out Ulster Farmers .This offer is there to blackmail the Catholic hating Loyalist scum into backing the deal .Imagine if the Brits had of stamped down on Loyalists gerrymandering constitutiencies in thr 1960s to prevent a few Catholics getting houses and not sent in their army to shoot Nationalists ,Chickens comming home to roost .
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You think very deeply on things, John........too intelligent for this place...I'm logged here somewhere as saying I though this might be the only ploy the Brits could adopt to finally dump the North.....a good while ago.......nobody commented except yourself.......
As for the Pakistani/Indian thing.........it's as old as the Yogi from the Hindu Kush.............good time to buy more Kashmir sweaters.....some people think it's a sign of mental illness if you believe in God....these people all do and they'll kill anyone who doesn't....The Indian is no pacifist.........Brits used them in the Raj to great effect to murder every cunt who rose up.
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Politics is almost as boring as sport.Whatever happens you'll be able to do fuk all about it.Might as well be watching Eastenders or Coronation street.
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Lip the Brits will never give back the north it gives them mineral rights all the way north to the north pole .Republicans seem to forget that .If the Brits wanted shut of the north they would just repeat history and transplant unemployed wasters from Liverpool or Newcastle and tell them if they want to move home they must vote for a united Ireland .If the numbers looked like a Republican majority the Brits could import Rangers fans into the North .The only problem the Brits have with the North is the Loyalists .
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Politics is almost as boring as sport.Whatever happens you'll be able to do fuk all about it.Might as well be watching Eastenders or Coronation street.
Not true you can always GET A GUN .
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Ya might kill a few before the ERU riddle ya with 100 bullets but then you'll be forgotten about in a few months.
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Ya might kill a few before the ERU riddle ya with 100 bullets but then you'll be forgotten about in a few months.
Dollymount or Christy Moore would write a baliad about us and we will live on for ever like a lot of the other so called Irish Rebels .
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If ya wanna cause damage ya need to buy a tank!Be a good ballad that one..
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Lip the Brits will never give back the north it gives them mineral rights all the way north to the north pole .Republicans seem to forget that .If the Brits wanted shut of the north they would just repeat history and transplant unemployed wasters from Liverpool or Newcastle and tell them if they want to move home they must vote for a united Ireland .If the numbers looked like a Republican majority the Brits could import Rangers fans into the North .The only problem the Brits have with the North is the Loyalists .
They can still control the waters up to Rockall, but just get Mick and Concepta to pay for it...they know, by 2030, Mick and Concepta will be replaced by Salma and Ahmed and they ain't paying for it twice...
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British Border control officers who operate the New Land Border between Norn Eireanna and the South need new uniforms ,Black jackets and Tan Trousers .Leo willlike the cut of the Slacks but the Irony wont be lost on Mary Lou who refuses to wear Black and Tan or Orance or trousers as she says she dosent wear the trousers in SF.
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Heres a big call Lip .Brits ask to extend article 50 but of the 27 Spain say No to an extention as they have upcoming elections .
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Cheltenham is on.......surprised at you......betting on the Spanish? I'd say if you could get Ladbrokes to take you on, you'd bet on how many lines were in the 3rd secret of Fatima.
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Talking to the Rat early yesterday Tried to have a Grand @30/100 that Mays deal would be defeared they refused and offered me 1/20.Not a big better at Chelt to compedative and corrupt .Only bet big in Group races on the flat where the prise is breading rights and not just prize money .Last four figure bet I had was Kew Gardens for the Ledger .
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No sense to that seeing as how they have kips in every dive of this country with bright lights and "come on in fool" stickers emblazoned on their doors.
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You called it Rodent They just announced no checks on goods coming from the ROI into THE NORTH .Now what will the EU instruct the Republic to do .They cannot have an open border inti the EU between the UK and Ireland .
They (the UK civil service) mightn't be as silly as you think!
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You think very deeply on things, John........too intelligent for this place...I'm logged here somewhere as saying I though this might be the only ploy the Brits could adopt to finally dump the North.....a good while ago.......nobody commented except yourself.......
As for the Pakistani/Indian thing.........it's as old as the Yogi from the Hindu Kush.............good time to buy more Kashmir sweaters.....some people think it's a sign of mental illness if you believe in God....these people all do and they'll kill anyone who doesn't....The Indian is no pacifist.........Brits used them in the Raj to great effect to murder every cunt who rose up.
The Sikhs were the most feared fighters in the service of the Raj.
Covered brilliantly in this trilogy:
https://us.macmillan.com/series/theibistrilogy/
They were.more interested in Opium production in 1839-41
than the Irish question.
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Used and abused by the Brits like the brainwashed Gurkhas. At least the Yanks know the tune to the Star Spangled Banner......
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Dd yis ever hear that cunt,when ITV,SKY,BBC,etc do an interview outside the house of commons ? ,this big bollox with the euro flag wrapped around him,and he shout out in a dragged voice STOOOOOOP BREXXXXXXIT. I swear I would love to get his flag ,and shove it up his hole
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Used and abused by the Brits like the brainwashed Gurkhas. At least the Yanks know the tune to the Star Spangled Banner......
Sepoys were used to invade Burma and Malaysia .
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They did the same here, Silver...........look no further than up the road.
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They did the same here, Silver...........look no further than up the road.
Yeah, and there wasn't a huge market for Opium oop north.
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I just put me telly on just now,and that big bollox is STILL at it ,STOOOOOOOP BREXXXXXXXXIT,the cunt must never sleep
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The erm's cousin?
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Probably has a big bet on
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Probably has a big bet on
Vicci why do Irish home owners pay the highest interest rates Irish governments have always butt fucked Irish citizens .Wyt do we pay VRT unlike any other country .I have supported my self and family by betting all winnings tax free .I posted this here I got a nice touch on Kew Gardens I have known better touches but if he wins the Ascot gold cup I will buy a new car and our kid has a deposit for a house .You only get out what you are willing to put in .
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Better to wait until after the race to let anyone know though? How many people logged on here when the media had that Taxi and cyclist thing splashed all over the net etc? 30 plus guests at all times with maybe 4 users is the norm..........I hope you win, John, but so many have found out to their costs that snipers will take pot-shots if it doesn't...
I can't understand anyone putting up their business here at all, at all. A tip from some stranger is alright as chances are you'll only have a tenner max on it........the money for a new car????..............crazy shite altogether. Keep it mad and unbelievable...safer for all concerned... ;)
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You always hear about the big wins.
Gambling is a mugs game.
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Of course it is. So are most things in life.
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Big hard kick in the Mickey comming up for Corbin one of his TDs has put down a motion for a second referendum .As that is Labour Party official policy will he tell his TDs to vote for it or will he get caught out as a brexiteer ?
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He might sit down with the Prime Minister (Taoiseach) ahead of next week's third vote on her deal... if, as BS suggested, she is in fact a Brexiteer she might invite him to Chequers for Sunday lunch?
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He made the huge mistake of outing Gerald Kaufmann as a top Mason..............the Anti-Semitic sideshow started then....remind you of a Dublin scenario a while ago?
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It all seems very undemocratic though... a third vote... makes a mockery of the entire political system. The question has been asked and answered., twice!
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It all seems very undemocratic though... a third vote... makes a mockery of the entire political system. The question has been asked and answered., twice!
If they change the name of the bill they can bring it back again its all bollox But wait for Tessy she will just say My way or we withdraw article 50 .She is a dead woman walking so might as well get what she really wanted to remain .
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Mark Twain....If voting made any difference, they'd never let you do it.
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Mark Twain....If voting made any difference, they'd never let you do it.
The motion is If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice was noticable and if you wish to confirm that you noticed this notice then you can vote on this notice .I hope that clears us stuff or not ,probably .
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Mark Twain....If voting made any difference, they'd never let you do it.
The motion is If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice was noticable and if you wish to confirm that you noticed this notice then you can vote on this notice .I hope that clears us stuff or not ,probably .
But there are known knowns, and unknown knowns...
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Mark Twain....If voting made any difference, they'd never let you do it.
The motion is If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice was noticable and if you wish to confirm that you noticed this notice then you can vote on this notice .I hope that clears us stuff or not ,probably .
But there are known knowns, and unknown knowns...
Most people dont know that they know that .
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Is the speaker of the House of Commons Britains best comedian brilliant watching all the different ways he calls the TDs arseholes .
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Which of them called Anne Widdicombe, Doris Karloff?
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I have to say I'm not convinced by BSs assertion that the British Prime Minister (Taoiseach) is a Brexiteer... but, if she is, that's how it ought to play out. With cross party support the deal would be approved. At this stage it may require a short delay to reposition some periods and commas so the leader of the opposition can claim some input.
However, I reckon the British Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and the civil service want to remain. Hence I suspect they want the deal defeated a third time having informed the house that such a defeat will require a long extension and also require Britain to participate in the European elections. Bearing in mind that she has already told the house that any new referendum will include a remain option, from there on the choreography will switch to remain.
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I have to say I'm not convinced by BSs assertion that the British Prime Minister (Taoiseach) is a Brexiteer... but, if she is, that's how it ought to play out. With cross party support the deal would be approved. At this stage it may require a short delay to reposition some periods and commas so the leader of the opposition can claim some input.
However, I reckon the British Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and the civil service want to remain. Hence I suspect they want the deal defeated a third time having informed the house that such a defeat will require a long extension and also require Britain to participate in the European elections. Bearing in mind that she has already told the house that any new referendum will include a remain option, from there on the choreography will switch to remain.
One of the Girl TD in Corbins shower has put down an amendment for a second referendum if that passes then Brexit is over .May will recind article 50 that way no second referendum and the original vote will be put on the shelf to threaten the EU in future .A lot of fuckology going on
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It cannot happen....EU law enshrined into constitution.................all about dumping the money-pit, Norn Iron....the most civil servants in Europe working there........penshuns, shickies, matarnity leave etc.....